Conservative Culture

Ok. Blogs can be biased. That is because people have a bias one way or another. In this case I can’t help myself. I like several of the candidates. But I like Sen. Jordan and what he stands for. Others can take the same stand but no one does it better than Jordan. So I see Club for Growth is behind him. Great.

In 19 days, the next congressman from Ohio’s 4th congressional district will likely be chosen. This is your last chance to help an outstanding candidate win.

As a state senator in the Ohio Legislature, Jim Jordan led the fight against two of the largest tax hikes in state history. When RINO Governor Bob Taft proposed a huge tax hike as part of the 2003 budget, not only did Jordan oppose it, but he also went through the laborious and complex task of proposing an alternative budget, one that didn’t raise taxes and was much, much leaner.

Also, when he refused to support a tax hike, the political retribution was fierce — he lost a state facility in his district. But Jordan remained an outspoken fiscal conservative who has had the courage to speak out against both higher taxes and wasteful spending.

However, Jim’s wealthy opponent just poured more than $600,000 of his own money into the race so please make a contribution to Jordan’s campaign so he can carry his pro-growth and limited government message to the voters during the final and critical days of the campaign. This is an open, and very safe Republican seat, so the winner of the May 2 primary is virtually assured of winning in November.

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Those religious political moonbats. No, not the preacher who invited candidates to church. The ones 31 coalition of liberal religious moonbats.

Russell Johnson, pastor of Lancaster’s Fairfield Christian Church, lashed out on Tuesday against a coalition of 31 other Columbus-area religious leaders who filed an amended Internal Revenue Service complaint against Johnson and another pastor, Rod Parsley, last week.

“They were concerned about having the folks coming to our events that are running for public office. We were asking them to come to our events before they were ever candidates for public office,” Johnson said.

I wonder where these 31 were when the Dems touted their liberal spew from the pulpit and at funerals. What hypocrites.

“The IRS says that you cannot endorse a candidate. There has never been a time on a Sunday morning where we have set up and said, ‘Vote for this person,’ or, ‘Take up an offering. We’re going to help this person with their campaign funds,’” Johnson said.

If it really comes down to it… just drop the 501 tax exemption and stop worrying about the IRS rules that go along with it. It isn’t anything more than the liberal wing of the church trying to silence conservative Christians from being involved.

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With a watchful eye we look for those positive pictures of the good things being done around the world. This from Iraq.

This U.S. Marine offers candy to an Iraqi boy while on weapons searches near Gharmah, Iraq last week.

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The only information of substance to be found about Guglielmi are ads about how to say his name and that he is pro-everything conservative. But the substance is missing. In the end you are left to ‘trust’ that he really is.

I have been giving it considerable thought since Guglielmi has spent nearly $600,000 of his own money for the campaign already (if that is not correct… please comment). Those concerns were compounded by dropping the name of Voinovich. Are we going to end up with a liberal Republican in office should his campaign pull it out? Is Ohio’s 4th district going to buy the pro-family, pro-life stance without any credentials? If this happens we will likely end up with a Congressman ‘Taft’ type Republican. I make the connection because Voinovich and Taft are similar in one main aspect. Neither are conservative.

More information about the Guglielmi family surfaced through Google. It’s tragic news for those not knowing. But I raise it because it reveals some concerns about who some might be voting for.

On Spring Break 2000 the Guglielmi family lost their son Andrew. Andrew was on a drinking binge and leaned over a balcony on the third floor. He fell. The family was told Andrew only had a 50-50 chance of living. Unfortunately, Andrew didn’t survive. A parent’s nightmare. A tragedy that we hope we don’t face and certainly don’t wish this on any family.

What does this reveal about their family? Many kids get drunk and go to Florida or vice versa. Why pick on a sad moment? Read their responses to the tragedy. Does this reflect the person you want in Washington?

“He was seduced by hotels, bars, and the alcohol folks,” Guglielmi says. “I put the advertisers in the same hopper. The advertising comes to the kids subtly; you watch these programs, MTV, kids doing degrading things on the beach with beer. It’s threaded with movies and TV selling this type of behavior.”

“How much can we parents do in these MTV-like environments?” asks Frank Guglielmi, whose son Andrew died during a trip to Panama City Beach. “I urge (the alcohol, hotel and tour industries) to help us. Certainly, as a parent, I’m responsible. But other people who, through the strength of advertising, have created an environment for this to happen have to take responsibility, too. It’s very seductive.”

“The intensive care unit was a war zone. There were families camped out everywhere. There were kids in comas,” Guglielmi said.

“What we parents learned is that this scene was repeated every year at the same time.”

Nan and Frank are haunted by the steady parade of injured teens they saw in the Florida hospital during the family’s vigil in the intensive care. Others there were also fighting for their lives after balcony falls, and there were girls in comas because they had unknowingly consumed drinks spiked with drugs. The Guglielmis want to help raise awareness about the realities of spring break alcohol use in order help others and to make positive social change from the tragedy of their son’s death.

You will find that Guglielmi is a social activist with a tragic story. He has lots of money to buy the race but he is out of touch or lying if he knows about MTV but knows nothing about the drinking and parties down there. Perhaps he is both. The real danger is if he is given the power to legislate. Talk about frivolous lawsuits. When someone dies and we suddenly feel all this pain there will need to be more awareness, more programs forcing others to step up and take responsibility for those type deaths. Guglielmi’s ads would be more genuine if they would say ‘Guglielmi for positive social change.’

I don’t buy the ads or the rhetoric. Guglielmi should stay in business and be a real help creating jobs. Leave the ‘positive social changes’ to individuals and not the government. The last thing we need is more government. Perhaps there were too many unknowns… but I now know more than I want and it isn’t pretty.

Tags: Conservative, Ohio, Pro-Life